‘The Cosby Show’ actor Malcolm-Jamal Warner dies at 54 in Costa Rica
Malcom-Jamal Warner has died.
“The Cosby Show” star drowned in Costa Rica. He was 54.
Warner had been swimming on Sunday afternoon at Playa Grande de Cocles in Limon province when a current pulled him into deeper waters, Costa Rica’s Judicial Investigation Department claimed.
“He was rescued by people on the beach,” an initial report stated, but first responders could not revive the actor.
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Fox News Digital has reached out to Warner’s representative for comment.
Warner gained fame as the son of Heathcliff Huxtable, played by Bill Cosby, on “The Cosby Show” from 1984 to 1992. He appeared in all 197 episodes of the NBC sitcom.
In 1986, Warner earned an Emmy nomination for best supporting actor in a comedy.
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The show’s legacy was tarnished after Cosby was accused of sexual assault. Cosby’s 2018 conviction was overturned in 2021. Since then, five more women have come forward with accusations against the comedian.
Despite the controversy, Warner was still proud of the show.
“Regardless of how some people may feel about the show now, I’m still proud of the legacy and having been a part of such an iconic show that had such a profound impact on – first and foremost, Black culture – but also American culture,” Warner told People magazine in 2023.
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He went on to star in the shows “Reed Between The Lines” and “Malcom & Eddie.”
Warner also landed roles in movies, including “Fool’s Gold,” “Shot,” “Tyson” and “Drop Zone.”
His most recent project was a podcast. Warner hosted “Not All Hood” with Weusi Baraka and Candace Kelley.
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Trump breaks silence on Idaho students killer Bryan Kohberger’s plea deal
President Donald Trump waded into the “vicious” Idaho student murders case Monday with a post on Truth Social about Bryan Kohberger’s upcoming sentencing, saying he hopes the judge requires some kind of explanation at Wednesday’s hearing for the slayings of “four wonderful young souls.”
When Kohberger pleaded guilty earlier this month, he gave no motive or explanation while admitting to the home invasion stabbing deaths of four college students.
“While Life Imprisonment is tough, it’s certainly better than receiving the Death Penalty but, before Sentencing, I hope the Judge makes Kohberger, at a minimum, explain why he did these horrible murders,” Trump wrote. “There are no explanations, there is no NOTHING.”
Trump echoed public surprise about the unexpected plea deal, which spares Kohberger from the potential death penalty in exchange for admitting to the crimes. He is expected to receive four consecutive terms of life imprisonment with no chance of parole, plus another 10 years, and has waived his right to appeal and to seek a sentence reduction.
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Critics have questioned why the deal didn’t require him to explain himself. And the appeal waiver does not mean he won’t have any chance to appeal, according to Judge Steven Hippler, who cited a Supreme Court case, Garza v. Idaho, that found defendants who waive their rights to appeal may still have a right to appeal.
“People were shocked that he was able to plea bargain, but the Judge should make him explain what happened,” Trump added. “Thank you for your attention to this matter!”
Kohberger pleaded guilty to all charges on July 2, about two months before he would have gone to trial in Boise, Idaho.
At the hearing, he admitted to sneaking into the off-campus home at 1122 King Road in Moscow, Idaho, and killing four University of Idaho students inside, some of whom were asleep.
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The victims were 21-year-olds Madison Mogen and Kaylee Goncalves, as well as 20-year-olds Xana Kernodle and Ethan Chapin.
They were all killed around 4 a.m. on Nov. 13, 2022. Kohberger was studying for a Ph.D. in criminology at Washington State University, about 10 miles away over the state line.
Goncalves’ family posted on their Facebook page that the president’s remarks left them wowed.
“Absolutely shocked,” the family wrote. “Kaylee, Maddie, Xana, Ethan – you have always mattered so much. You are so loved & your nature, your light, your entire being is so bright & visible.”
Kohberger could have faced capital punishment, and Idaho had recently taken steps to bring back the firing squad as a result of difficulties with lethal injection as a viable option.
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The victims’ families were split over the plea deal, with some welcoming a chance to move past the murders. Goncalves’ family, notably, had been hoping for the most severe punishment and pleaded with the judge to at least require an explanation before accepting the deal.
According to court documents, DNA from a knife sheath left at the crime scene matched Kohberger’s, and cellphone data placed him near the victims’ house multiple times before the killings. Surveillance footage also captured a white Hyundai Elantra in the area.
Kohberger’s official sentencing is scheduled for Wednesday morning.
Adams responds to Homan pledge to ‘flood the zone’ with ICE agents after CBP shooting
After border czar Tom Homan vowed to “flood the zone” with ICE agents in response to the shooting of an off-duty U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP) officer in New York City, Mayor Eric Adams answered whether he will cooperate with the Trump administration’s crackdown.
Adams said he would support any efforts to “go after dangerous people like this individual who shot an innocent Customs and Border Patrol agent.”
“If he’s going to assist us to go after those individuals, I welcome it,” he said, adding, “If it’s going to be to go after everyday individuals who are trying to complete the path to be a citizen, I don’t think we should do that.”
Adams, who is running for re-election as an independent, addressed the shooting during a press conference on Monday. He said he has visited the injured officer and that he is “extremely angry that we have a Customs and Border Patrol officer that is in the hospital because a person that should have not been on our street was on our street.”
The CBP officer is currently hospitalized in stable condition.
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In response to Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem singling him out as being responsible for the shooting because of New York City’s sanctuary laws, Adams said, “I have nothing to do with the rules that are put in place. I just carry out the rules.”
He placed the blame on criminal bail reform laws passed under former New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo, who is also running for mayor as an independent. He said the bail reform passed under Cuomo has created a “revolving door criminal justice system” that allowed people such as the shooters to get back on the streets.
“You know how outraged I am because of Andrew’s bail reform laws on how we have this revolving door criminal justice system,” he said.
“I’m very clear. Always have been clear,” he went on. “Stop the revolving door system, go after the dangerous migrants and asylum seekers who are here and allow hardworking people who are in this city to go on with their lives as they go through the process.”
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The mayor also addressed mixed reporting on his relationship with President Donald Trump and the administration, saying, “You guys are confusing me. You know that?”
“When they say I do a good job, you attack me, saying that they never criticize me and I never criticize them, although we’ve taken the administration to court more than any mayor in the country,” he said. “And when they say I do something wrong, you say, why aren’t you upset that they said I’ve said that I did something wrong. You can’t have it both ways. You know, we’re not joined at the hip.”
“But when they mention my name of the good things I do, y’all say I’m in their pocket, I’m under their thumb. Like, I mean, which one is it? I’m a little confused here. You know, they have their perspective, I have my perspectives, and then we come together sometimes.”
The CBP officer was allegedly shot in the face and forearm in Manhattan’s Riverside Park on Saturday night in an attempted robbery allegedly by two criminal illegal immigrants. Two suspects, Dominican nationals Miguel Francisco Mora Nunez and Cristian Aybar Berroa, have been arrested in connection with the shooting.
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Noem has said Aybar-Berroa has a criminal record in New York City and that detainers “were ignored” because of Adams’ sanctuary city policies.
Meanwhile, socialist mayoral candidate Zohran Mamdani, the Democratic Party’s mayoral candidate, has remained silent on the shooting.
Mamdani’s social media posts and website show no public statement on the matter, which has become national news and sparked a broader discussion of President Joe Biden’s border policies and criticism of sanctuary cities.
Activist and Republican mayoral candidate Curtis Sliwa commented on the incident on his X account, saying, “A violent illegal alien may have pulled the trigger, but it was Eric Adams’ reckless policies that created the conditions for it to happen. He, for sure, has blood on his hands.”
Sliwa also said, “I am the only candidate on the ballot who opposes sanctuary city status. Adams, Cuomo, and Mamdani all support it.”
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Fox News Digital reached out to the Mamdani, Cuomo and Sliwa campaigns for comment but did not immediately hear back.
Former first son threatens to ‘invade’ El Salvador in explosive immigration rant
Hunter Biden raged against President Donald Trump and his mass deportation efforts during an expletive-laden interview with a Philadelphia podcaster in which he calls his father’s successor a “f—ing thug” and draws parallels to 19th-century government actions against Black freedmen.
Biden and “Channel 5” podcaster Andrew Callaghan spoke for three hours on a range of topics, from the former first son’s cocaine use, to the former president’s disastrous debate, to theories that he was marketing paintings to assuage overseas interests in favor of his dad.
On immigration, Biden began by revisiting the Reconstruction era and the Ku Klux Klan’s early role as a voter suppression organization against Black Americans.
He discussed an 1873 incident in Colfax, Louisiana, when former Confederate militiamen and the Klan converged with a cannon on a courthouse where several Black men were defending GOP officeholders following a contested election.
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Many of those defenders were slaughtered outside the courthouse and Biden said such violence and intimidation continued throughout the country thereafter.
Connecting that time to the present, Biden said America gets stuck in a “permanent Jim Crow loop” that when the “more perfect union” is nearly realized, a “symbiosis between money and power” ruins it.
“There is a minority group that those in power, that came into power through democratically elected means, are going to target this minority group because they’re stealing all the jobs,” he said, as clips played of Trump from 2016 speaking about “Mexico not sending their best” and claims of migrants “eating the dogs” in Ohio.
“And what we’re going to do is we’re going to send masked men to this marginalized group, and we are going to take them, put them on planes, put them on buses, put them on trains, and send them to a prison camp in a foreign country,” Biden fumed.
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“What am I describing right then? Am I describing Germany? Or am I just describing the United States right now? Because I will tell you what. You think that the prison in El Salvador is not a f—ing concentration camp, you’re out of your f—ing mind.”
Biden then claimed White men are “4-5 times more likely” to commit a violent crime than illegal immigrants.
He also reserved invective for former President Barack Obama’s top acolytes, including the “Pod Save America” hosts, and top advisors David Axelrod and Rahm Emanuel.
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Biden said Axelrod wrongly surmised that Democrats need to understand why people are upset and appeal to them.
“Well, the only people that f—ing appealed to those f—ing White voters was Joe Biden, 81 years old, and he got 81 million votes. And he did because, not because he appeased their f—ing Trumpian sense, but because he challenged it,” Biden said.
“And he said, you can be an 81-year-old Catholic from f—ing Scranton that doesn’t understand it, but still has empathy for transgender people and immigrants,” he said, as Callaghan posted a photo of former Pennsylvania Health Secretary Rachel Levine, who also served in the Biden administration.
If he were president, Biden said, he would call Salvadoran President Nayib Bukele and warn him that “you either f—ing send them back [to the U.S.] or I’m going to f—ing invade.”
“It’s a f—ing crime what they’re doing. He’s a f—ing dictator thug,” he added.
When Callaghan asked if Biden meant Trump or Bukele was a “thug,” Biden indicated “both.”
“Luckily for the American people, a house cat has a better chance of being President than Hunter,” White House spokesperson Abigail Jackson told Fox News Digital in response to Biden’s comments. “If anyone agreed with Hunter’s unhinged rantings, Kamala Harris would be in the White House right now. But the American people sent President Trump back to the White House because they wanted him to undo all of Joe Biden’s disastrous policies – including his open borders agenda that let countless criminal illegal aliens come into our country.”
Hollywood star claims he hopes Trump voters are ‘losing tons of money’ in podcast rant
Actor Jeff Daniels lamented former Vice President Kamala Harris losing the 2024 presidential election in a new interview, saying she would have governed like President Abraham Lincoln.
“I still think about Kamala, and how I think she would have been a good choice,” Daniels told MSNBC’s Nicolle Wallace in an episode published Monday of her podcast, “The Best People.” “I don’t care what they say, because she would have done what Lincoln did.”
“Liz Cheney would have been secretary of state,” Daniels said.
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“Team of Rivals,” Wallace interjected, referencing the book by Doris Kearns Goodwin, “Team of Rivals: The Political Genius of Abraham Lincoln,” which looks at how Lincoln included former political opponents in his cabinet.
“Team of Rivals,” Daniels agreed. “That’s what Lincoln did, surrounded himself with the people who would disagree with him, not the people who would, you know, take a knee and go, ‘Yeah, more tariffs, sir, more.’”
Harris’ campaign heavily used Liz Cheney, one of President Donald Trump’s fiercest Republican critics, on the campaign trail in 2024. Once a conservative star in the House, Cheney was one of only two Republicans who served on the special committee investigating the Jan. 6 Capitol riot, which resulted in her losing her seat in Wyoming. Harris also pledged to appoint a Republican to her Cabinet if elected.
Daniels, known for his prominent movie, television and stage roles, said the Republican Party was deteriorating under Trump.
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“It’s the madness of King George, and just the deterioration of the Republican Party,” he said. “I mean, look, I’m just an actor. What do I know? But when Mitch [McConnell] started stacking the courts 25 years ago, I said it on your show once, they can see it coming. The new America that is diverse and treats everyone with equality and respect and dignity, you know, kind of like Jesus did. We’re ready for that.”
He also said wealthy backers are “losing money” under Trump.
“And Mitch and company could see it coming,” he said. “They were going to be the minority, so they just started and then here we are, and now you got it, and now you’re losing money. I hope you’re losing tons of money, those of you who thought this would be OK.”
Daniels is playing President Ronald Reagan in the upcoming movie “Reykjavík,” about the summit between Reagan and Soviet leader Mikhail Gorbachev in 1986. His recent roles include playing former FBI Director James Comey in Showtime’s “The Comey Rule,” and fictional newscaster Will McAvoy on HBO’s “The Newsroom,” in addition to his numerous film roles going back to the 1980s.
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FBI left key evidence on ‘cutting room floor’ in Clinton probe, new report claims
Senate Judiciary Committee Chairman Chuck Grassley released declassified documents related to the FBI’s investigation into former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton’s private email server when she served in the federal government, revealing the FBI reportedly “failed to fully investigate” the matter.
“This document shows an extreme lack of effort and due diligence in the FBI’s investigation of former Secretary Clinton’s email usage and mishandling of highly classified information,” Grassley said in a Monday press release.
“Under Comey’s leadership, the FBI failed to perform fundamental investigative work and left key pieces of evidence on the cutting room floor,” he continued. “The Comey FBI’s negligent approach and perhaps intentional lack of effort in the Clinton investigation is a stark contrast to its full-throated investigation of the Trump-Russia collusion hoax, which was based on the uncorroborated and now discredited Steele dossier. Comey’s decision-making process smacks of political infection.”
Clinton, who served as former President Barack Obama’s secretary of state from 2009 to 2013, was investigated by the FBI over claims she improperly stored or transmitted classified materials on a private email server. The FBI advised the Department of Justice in 2016, ahead of that year’s massive election that pitted Clinton against future President Donald Trump, that Clinton should not face prosecution over the matter.
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“Although there is evidence of potential violations of the statutes regarding the handling of classified information, our judgment is that no reasonable prosecutor would bring such a case,” then-FBI director James Comey said in a press release. “Prosecutors necessarily weigh a number of factors before bringing charges. There are obvious considerations, like the strength of the evidence, especially regarding intent. Responsible decisions also consider the context of a person’s actions, and how similar situations have been handled in the past.”
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Grassley specifically released declassified materials from the “Clinton annex,” which is an appendix to the Department of Justice Office of Inspector General’s 2018 report that reviewed the DOJ and FBI’s handling of the Clinton investigation. Attorney General Pam Bondi, and other Trump administration leaders at other agencies, declassified the materials and delivered them to Grassley at his request, his press release reported.
The documents claim that then-FBI Director Comey, as well as other FBI leaders, obtained thumb drives related to their investigation into Clinton, but that the agency failed “to perform additional, targeted searches of the drives,” according to Grassley’s office.
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The thumb drives reportedly were never reviewed during the investigation, but “contained highly sensitive information exfiltrated from U.S. government agencies, including the Department of State, as well as then-President Barack Obama’s emails and, potentially, congressional information.”
The FBI also obtained intelligence that alleged communications between Florida Democrat Rep. Debbie Wasserman Schultz, who served as Democratic National Committee chair until July 2016 when she resigned, and individuals who worked for the Soros Open Society Foundations, which was founded by left-wing billionaire donor George Soros.
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“The intelligence reports alleged that the Obama administration took efforts to scuttle the investigation into Clinton and protect her candidacy,” Grassley’s release reported, but that the FBI at the time did “not make serious investigative efforts” into the intelligence reports.
Fox News Digital reached out to Clinton’s office, Wasserman Schultz’s office, the Soros Open Society Foundations and the Kettering Foundation, where Comey currently works as a senior fellow, for comment on Grassley’s release, but did not immediately receive replies.
“I warned years ago that the Clinton investigation failed to hit the mark, and I’m grateful the American people can finally see the facts for themselves,” Grassley said in the press release. “After nearly a decade in the shadows, this information is now coming to light thanks to Attorney General Pam Bondi and FBI Director Kash Patel’s dedicated efforts to fulfill my congressional request.
“I appreciate their ongoing commitment to transparency and strongly urge them to continue to fully review this matter, including its national security impact,” he said.
Grassley’s release follows Director of National Intelligence Tulsi Gabbard’s bombshell claims that Obama-era officials reportedly “manufactured and politicized intelligence” to create the narrative that Russia was attempting to influence the 2016 presidential election.
Gabbard released unclassified documents Friday that reportedly show “overwhelming evidence” that then-President Obama and his national security team laid the groundwork for what would be the yearslong Trump-Russia collusion probe after Trump’s election win against Clinton in 2016.
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“Their goal was to usurp President Trump and subvert the will of the American people,” Gabbard had posted to X on Friday regarding the criminal referral. “No matter how powerful, every person involved in this conspiracy must be investigated and prosecuted to the fullest extent of the law. The integrity of our democratic republic depends on it. We are turning over all documents to the DOJ for criminal referral.”
Fox News confirmed earlier Monday that the DOJ received Gabbard’s criminal referral related to the matter but did not share additional comment.
Tennessee Rep Mark Green resigns, leaving US House with four vacancies
Rep. Mark Green‘s last day in office was Sunday, leaving 219 Republicans and 212 Democrats in the U.S. House of Representatives.
With Green’s departure, there are now 431 House members and four vacancies, including those from late Democratic Reps. Sylvester Turner of Texas, Raul Grijalva of Arizona, and Gerry Connolly of Virginia.
Green, the Republican from Tennessee, said last month that he would leave Congress for the private sector once the House voted again on President Donald Trump’s “big, beautiful bill,” in a statement first obtained by Fox News Digital.
“It is with a heavy heart that I announce my retirement from Congress. Recently, I was offered an opportunity in the private sector that was too exciting to pass up. As a result, today I notified the Speaker and the House of Representatives that I will resign from Congress as soon as the House votes once again on the reconciliation package,” Green said.
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And with the House of Representatives passing Trump’s megabill by a self-imposed July 4th deadline, Green shared with Fox News that his last day in Congress would be Sunday, July 20.
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He called serving Tennessee’s 7th Congressional District “the honor of a lifetime.”
“They asked me to deliver on the conservative values and principles we all hold dear, and I did my level best to do so. Along the way, we passed historic tax cuts, worked with President Trump to secure the border, and defended innocent life. I am extremely proud of my work as chairman of the Homeland Security Committee, and want to thank my staff, both in my 7th District office, as well as the professional staff on that committee,” Green said.
Green acknowledged in his statement that he had previously geared up to retire in the last Congress, but reversed course.
“Though I planned to retire at the end of the previous Congress, I stayed to ensure that President Trump’s border security measures and priorities make it through Congress,” he said.
“By overseeing the border security portion of the reconciliation package, I have done that. After that, I will retire, and there will be a special election to replace me.”
Green is an Army veteran who has served in Congress since 2019.
As House Homeland Security Committee chair, he oversaw Republicans’ impeachment of former Biden administration DHS Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas.
Even with Green’s departure from Congress, it’s a safe bet to assume his House seat will stay in Republican hands.
The district voted for Trump by more than 20 percentage points over former Vice President Kamala Harris last year.
Fox News Digital was first to report last week that Green endorsed Matt Van Epps to replace him in the U.S. House of Representatives.
Green called Van Epps, a decorated Army veteran and the former commissioner of Tennessee’s Department of General Services (DGS), a “true warrior.”
“Matt Van Epps has my complete and total endorsement,” Green shared in a statement with Fox News Digital. Green revealed that he served in the same Army special operations unit as Van Epps, which he described as “a brotherhood that cannot be replicated anywhere else.”
In a statement shared first with Fox News Digital, Van Epps said he was “deeply honored” to receive Green’s endorsement and “ready to put the people of the 7th District first.”
“Congressman Green has left some very large shoes to fill, but I’m ready to step in and continue his work on behalf of Tennesseans,” Van Epps said.
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Several Republican candidates have announced their own congressional campaigns, including Montgomery County Commissioner Jason Knight, U.S. Army veteran Jonathan Thorp, Mason Foley of Main Street Health, and state Reps. Jay Reedy, Lee Reeves and Jody Barrett.
Mamdani reveals ‘radical’ upbringing and plans to rebrand socialism in unearthed clip
A resurfaced interview by New York City socialist mayoral candidate Zohran Mamdani shows him explaining that the family he grew up in made him “open” to being a “radical” and suggesting that socialism needs to be re-branded.
“I think, honestly, growing up in the family that I grew up in, I was quite open to what would be considered being a radical from a very young age,” Mamdani said on The Far Left Show in 2020.
“I mean, from the beginning, my identities are already considered radical by a lot of mainstream American political thought. So being a Muslim, being an immigrant, these are things that already kind of put you in the box of ‘other.’ And so it’s not that far of a jump because whenever you… stand up to speak up for the rights of others who share the same identity as you, then you’re a radical, right? So often people in this country are considered radicals if they stand up for Palestinian human rights.”
Mamdani has faced criticism over some of his positions taken as a young man, including supporting an academic boycott of Israel and starting a Students for Justice in Palestine chapter during his college days, as well as the past writings of his father, Mahmood Mamdani.
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Mahmood Mamdani’s social media presence is littered with anti-Israel positions referring to Israelis as “colonial settlers” and celebrating the idea of a “third intifada.” Additionally, Mahmood Mamdani sits on the council of an openly anti-Israel tribunal and once wrote in a book, which he dedicated to his son, that suicide bombers “stigmatized as a mark of barbarism.”
“Zohran Mamdani has built his political brand on the same radical, hate-filled and anti-American ideology his father, Mahmood Mamdani, has spent decades promoting—one that demonizes Jewish people and legitimizes anti-democratic violence,” Brooke Goldstein, a human rights attorney who specializes in antisemitism, told Fox News Digital earlier this month.
“The Jew-hatred the Mamdani family peddles is fundamentally anti-American and violates the core values our country was founded on—tolerance, equality, and liberty. Our nation’s strength lies in its diversity and commitment to protecting minority rights. Antisemitic world views threaten the peace and security of our communities.”
In the interview, the younger Mamdani went on to lament the criticism that Democratic Socialists of America have faced for supporting BDS.
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BDS is described as “an international campaign to delegitimize the State of Israel as the expression of the Jewish people’s right to national self-determination by isolating the country economically through consumer boycotts, business and government withdrawal of investment, and legal sanctions,” according to Influence Watch.
Mamdani also explained in the interview his evolution as a “socialist.”
“I think I’ve been a socialist for quite a while, but I don’t think I understood myself within the terms of that label,” Mamdani said. “And I think that that is something that I not only internalized, but also became comfortable expressing when I became an active member of New York City DSA, which is an organization that I’ve been a member of. I attended my first meeting in early 2017, but I’ve been a much more active member since 2018.”
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Mamdani added that he hopes to rebrand the word socialism to be more appetizing for the general public.
“I think, for me, a lot of times people try and scare you into never embracing the word, and I think that there’s a lot of work that we have to do to change our branding, because socialism in and of itself, the way I understand it, is a fight for the state to provide all that is necessary to live a dignified life for each and every person in our state,” Mamdani explained.
“That is something that when you explain it in that way, and when you talk about the way in which it is applied, when you’re talking about typically housing, healthcare, education, but I would argue we must expand that beyond and talk about public transit and talk about the internet and talk childcare. People are receptive to that.”
Fox News Digital reached out to the Mamdani campaign for comment.
Over 5M swimming pools sold at major retailers recalled after reports of 9 deaths
More than 5 million above-ground swimming pools are being recalled after reports of nine children drowning over a 15-year span.
The affected Bestway, Intex and Polygroup pools are 48 inches and taller and use compression straps that wrap around the pool on the outside of the support poles, the Consumer Product Safety Commission said in a notice on Monday. The straps “may create a foothold, allowing a child to access the pool and drown,” according to the CPSC. It warned that children can still gain access to the pools using the footholds, even if the ladder is removed.
The CPSC believes nine children between the ages of 22 months and 3 years old drowned after gaining access to the pools using the footholds. It said the incidents occurred in California, Texas, Florida, Michigan, Wisconsin and Missouri between 2007 and 2022.
“As part of this process, starting in 2023, the three companies began working with the CPSC and other safety advocates to update the safety standard for above-ground pools,” Bestway, Intex and Polygroup said in a joint statement. “The updated standard was finalized in May 2025 and aims to prevent unsupervised children from gaining a foothold on the products from compression straps that surround the outside of the pool legs.
The companies said “most above-ground pools 48 inches or taller in height currently being sold today have already addressed this concern,” and that the recall is being issued to “ensure that these changes can be applied to all above-ground pools sold since 2002 that are 48 inches or taller in height.”
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The recalled swimming pools have been sold since 2002, and most recently in 2025, at retailers nationwide, including Walmart, Target, Lowe’s, Home Depot, Costco and Amazon. About 266,000 of the now-recalled pools were sold in Canada.
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Brand names and model numbers of the affected products are printed on the pool liner outside the pool.
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The CPSC said consumers should contact Bestway, Intex and Polygroup to receive a free repair kit that includes a rope that serves as a replacement for the compression strap. The agency said consumers should make sure children cannot access the pool without supervision or drain the pool until the repair is made.